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Recommend move eshell/su and eshell/sudo to em-tramp.el
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John Wiegley |
Subject: |
Recommend move eshell/su and eshell/sudo to em-tramp.el |
Date: |
Thu, 28 Jun 2012 22:32:22 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.130006 (Ma Gnus v0.6) Emacs/24.1 (darwin) |
Something I've noticed after moving to Emacs 24 is that using "sudo" in Eshell
has become an awful experience:
- It's *much* slower than *sudo (by orders of magnitude)
- It doesn't show any output until the command is done
- It locks up Emacs until the command is done
I find this behavior distasteful, since sudo is such a common command for
users of Eshell to use. It was added in 2009 by the Tramp author:
2009-11-27 Michael Albinus <address@hidden>
* eshell/em-unix.el (eshell/su, eshell/sudo): New defuns,
providing a Tramp related implementation of "su" and "sudo".
(eshell-unix-initialize): Add "su" and "sudo".
I appreciate what these two functions are trying to accomplish, but they
should not have been made the default. I recommend moving them out of
em-unix.el and into a new module, em-tramp.el, which is OFF by default. Users
who prefer to use Tramp for everything can turn it on, and a note to that
effect should be added to the Tramp manual.
John
- Recommend move eshell/su and eshell/sudo to em-tramp.el,
John Wiegley <=